A man tried to carry a gun aboard a plane. Detected, he lunged for the weapon and (apparently unintentionally) fired it. Three people were hurt. Injuries non-lethal, but who wants to suffer a bullet wound because some dumbass can't be separated from his security blanket? 1/x
This report is a very big deal. No one wants this personal data with govts but nor do they want it unrestricted in the hands of companies who they don't even choose to interact. But until we get our arms around Facebook and Google's even-larger surveillance, this will happen.
Learning to live with Chinese authoritarianism: The wife of the jailed ex-president of Interpol has had no news from her husband or parents in 3 years. ��Many families in China today are facing a similar fate.” #TheAPInterview @AP @johnleicester https://t.co/knKjcz04e0
Last week I said Aaron Rodgers was the tragic face of the @NFL. I wish to make a correction: it’s both Aaron Rodgers + Joe Flacco. Their lack of critical thinking skills, commitment to teammates, country is both dreary and inexcusable, and causing needless loss of American lives
Racial covenants — language that barred Black people and other minorities from living in white neighborhoods — are still on the books across the U.S.
They're unenforceable now, but remain an ugly reminder of the nation’s racist past.
And they can be shockingly hard to remove 🧵
In cutthroat cultures, people kiss up and kick down. They protect themselves by currying favor with people in power and exploiting those without it.
In supportive cultures, people speak up and support down. They protect people without power by raising problems to those with it.
In 2015 John McEntee was a production assistant at Fox News helping with social. In 2020 he was organizing the purge of the federal bureaucracy of people not sufficiently loyal to Donald Trump, including the Secy of Defense.
Free and fair elections are a cornerstone of our democracy. Defending the right to vote and getting dark money out of politics are issues that impact rural areas just as they do urban.
Great to join @staceyabrams, who is leading the fight to ensure access to the ballot box.
wonder if people realize that, at some point in the near future, there may be gluts of many of the things that are now in very short supply. It's how the system works (or doesn't work)
How can Republicans claim to be fiscally conservative when these are the only TWO Presidents to lower the Deficit in the last 50 years?...Yeah Bill Clinton and the Great Obama...let that sink in!